The birds have not yet made it back in any number, we were so long without any seed to offer, but that means property is abounding with marvelous dragons, who have such nice faces. Click for full size.
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From “the”, wonderful photos of a humpback whale. Exciting! Click for full size.
1) What one sees most of the time: just a large, humped back after it surfaces, blows, inhales, and does a shallow dive.
2) Showing its flukes – normally (always?) seen just before a deep dive (when it will feed). This is one of the species’ signatures, almost no other large species shows the tail consistently before sounding.
3) …and, every once in a while, a tour will be very, very lucky, and see the whale perform a series of saltos like this; it did this about 7-8 times in a row, this was the only one I caught clearly (despite the evidently calm seas, it wasn’t entirely flat – the boat was doing irregular “pitches” of about 50 cm in amplitude). Just breathtaking.
Photos taken off St. Anthony, NL, Canada, July 28 2016.
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From Giliell, oh, click for full size!
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From Giliell, slices of nice. Flowers are Hortensia and Clover. Click for full size.
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Eating the candle at both ends. And the top. And the sides. And every other way we can do it. Click for full size.
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Male Yellow-rumped Warbler. Click for full size.
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As Giliell says, life out of death. Click for full size.
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An earth goddess making beautiful, shiny dirt? From Giliell, click for full size.
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White-Crowned Sparrow, click for full size.
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From Giliell, click for full size. I just had to play with this one.
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I love the colour and spidery delicacy of thistle. From Giliell, click for full size.
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Harris’s Sparrow. Click for full size.
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File this under serious gear lust.
Via Colossal Art.